How to Screencast from Your Chromebook

Screencasting from Chromebooks is one of the top items in the wishlist for Chrome OS users. If you are ready to play around with your Chromebook a little, you can do this now. Else, wait for the feature to land on your Chromebook in its full glory.

You will need your Chromebook in developer mode ( not developer channel), crouton and a script which asks the Chromebook to start screencast.

1. First you need to make sure your Chromebook is in Developer Mode. Select your device at www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-i­nformation-for-chrome-os-devices to know what to do.2. Then, open a Chrome Terminal by pressing <Ctrl> + <Alt> + t.3. Visit the crouton website at https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton, download crouton from http://goo.gl/fd3zc and create a chroot environment by running sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t audio4. Finally, download the screencast.sh script from http://goo.gl/UmWAta and run sh -e screencast.sh